SCREAMING hordes of teenage girls are a common sight at pop concerts and film premieres. They are less usual when waiting to hear a religious preacher.
成群少女尖叫的场面常常出现在流行歌曲演唱会和电影首映式上,但在等待布道时却不怎么常见。
The scientists were able to replicate the gene variation in a strain of mice and found that the mice needed less sleep than usual, too.
科学家能够在一种老鼠的身上复制这一基因变异,结果发现,这种老鼠需要的睡眠时间也比平常少了。
He said there was some evidence, though not conclusive, that the form of this lymphoma found in implant patients was less aggressive than the usual type.
他表示,没有确凿证据表明隆胸病人中发现的淋巴瘤比起常见类型的淋巴瘤更具杀伤性。
This year there has been less of the usual footage of burly men bashing small furry skulls and of blood smeared across the ice floes.
今年少了平日那些魁梧的猎人猛击海豹毛皮稀少的头部以及鲜血流淌于冰川之间的场景。
Or they compensated in another way, by moving around a lot less than usual after they got home. (Read "Run For Your Lives.")
或者,她们以另一种方式补偿自己——回家后,她们的走动比平时少得多。
It also has less internal memory, a seven-inch touch screen instead of the more usual ten-inch one, and relies on an older, less demanding version (Eclair) of the Android operating system.
而且它也有更少的内存储器,7英寸触屏而不是更通常的10英寸并且依靠一个更老的,要求较低版本(Eclair)的android操作系统。
The region has suffered from 40 to 60 percent less rainfall than usual.
这一地区的降水比常年偏少四至六成。
Poverty is, of course, a highly relative concept, but the usual definition of "absolute" poverty is an income of less than $1.25 a day.
当然,贫困只是一个相对的概念,但是通常我们把“绝对”贫困的概念定义为每天的收入不足1.25美元。
The narrow streets of the marketplace may have been less crowded than usual, but most workers and business owners there said going on strike was a luxury they simply could not afford.
市场上狭窄的街道可能不像往常那么拥挤了,但是那里的大部分工人和商人说,继续进行罢工是一件奢侈的事情,因为他们罢不起工。
Rising house prices have emboldened consumers to save much less than usual.
持续上升的房价使消费者敢于比正常情况储蓄得更少。
The sudden appearance of higher-quality goods suggests that officials are being less zealous than usual in enforcing the export rules, for fear of causing job losses.
突然冒出来的高质量产品表明,官员们执行出口规则的热情与以往相比正在减少,因为担忧引发失业问题。
In contrast, the current disaster is more or less "business as usual", i.e. some cyclical adjustment, yes, but no new employment reality and added downshift to lifetime income expectations.
相比,现时的灾难大致与过往相同,比如一些周期性的调整,没错,这次没有新的就业困境,也没有缩减终生收入期望。
The hypotheses about Leos' intestines and Sagittarians' arms were less than 5% likely to have come about by chance, satisfying the usual standards of proof of a relationship.
有关狮子座的肠胃与射手座的胳膊偶尔受损的可能低于5%,因此假说符合效应关系成立的一般标准。
She was the best-looking woman in the room; she made the dinner a little less funereal than the usual van der Luyden banquet.
她成了客厅里最漂亮的女人,她使得晚宴比范德卢顿平日那种宴会少了不少丧葬气氛。
Once inside, they found that service was slower, menu items were sold out, and the experience was generally less enjoyable than usual.
一旦进入饭店里,他们发现这里的服务缓慢,菜单上的菜品已经售罄,并且就餐体验普遍地没有通常那么令人感到愉快。
But for many firms the usual jitters are now combined with a less familiar problem: falling profitability.
但是对于许多公司来说,以往让人头疼的问题如今又掺入了一些少见的因素:收益率下降。
The genes they occurred in tended to be transcribed more than usual, not less.
由它们产生的基因往往会超出寻常的被转录。
This is less a critical position or a historical insight than a mood, induced by the usual selective comparisons and subjective hunches.
与其说这种问题带有批判的姿态亦或是深刻的历史见地,不如说是由于比较新老电影,再加上自己的主观喜好而心生的落寞之情。
As of the end of May, Dongting Lake had already shrunk to less than 45 percent of its usual surface area, according to state-run media.
据官方媒体报道,至5月底,洞庭湖的面积已不及原来的45%。
Constipation is when you pass stools less often than usual, or when you are having difficulty going to the toilet because your stools are hard and small.
便秘是当你通过粪便往往比平常少,或者当您有困难要上厕所,因为你很难和小凳子。
When she once again out through the front door, less showtime bouncing, but marched usual pace, and left.
当她再次从前门走出,少了些蹦跳,只是迈着平常的步伐,走了。
“The annual budget is even less of a meaningful document this year than usual, ” argues Cynthia Jamison of Tatum, a consulting firm that also provides clients with interim CFOs.
Tatum是一家咨询公司并兼有为客户提供临时财务主管的业务。 该公司的CynthiaJamison说:“今年编制的年度预算比往年错误更多,完全就是废纸一堆。”
That made the annual transatlantic hedge-fund give-off between ARK and the organisation that inspired it even less of a contest than usual.
这使年度大西洋彼岸的对冲基金捐赠在ARK和发起它的组织之间的竞争较之以前要少。
Patients in the massage groups spent fewer days in bed, were more active, and used less anti-inflammatory medication than did those with usual care.
在按摩组患者与常规治疗者比较,在床上休息时间减少,参加更多活动,并且更少使用抗炎类药物。
A few creatures in 200-point play can reliably smash through Stone Transformation, but in most cases even they will do less damage than usual.
少数生物在200分的对战中仍可以确实的打穿石质转化,但是在大部分的情形即使打中了伤害也比平常少。
A few creatures in 200-point play can reliably smash through Stone Transformation, but in most cases even they will do less damage than usual.
少数生物在200分的对战中仍可以确实的打穿石质转化,但是在大部分的情形即使打中了伤害也比平常少。
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